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In preparing the elementary part , particular attention has been paid to the subject
of intonation , and the formation of the voice , while the instructions in articulation
, inflection and emphasis , are sufficiently full for use . IV . SELECTIONS FOR ...
In preparing the elementary part , particular attention has been paid to the subject
of intonation , and the formation of the voice , while the instructions in articulation
, inflection and emphasis , are sufficiently full for use . IV . SELECTIONS FOR ...
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Some School Readers are furnished with a complete system of rules , minute and
precise , for the tones , inflections , stress , and all other modulations of the voice ,
with elaborate dissertations on the most abstruse subjects in the science of ...
Some School Readers are furnished with a complete system of rules , minute and
precise , for the tones , inflections , stress , and all other modulations of the voice ,
with elaborate dissertations on the most abstruse subjects in the science of ...
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One was , to make such a selection of pieces as would lead to correct and
impressive reading by those who have good voices under full command . The
other was , to arrange a system of exercises , which would give increased power
and ...
One was , to make such a selection of pieces as would lead to correct and
impressive reading by those who have good voices under full command . The
other was , to arrange a system of exercises , which would give increased power
and ...
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There are some individuals , who , by reason of a natural pliability of voice , or
through the influence of instruction , and especially of example at home , seem to
read with gracefulness and force , by a natural impulse . But the great majority of
...
There are some individuals , who , by reason of a natural pliability of voice , or
through the influence of instruction , and especially of example at home , seem to
read with gracefulness and force , by a natural impulse . But the great majority of
...
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Depth of voice , or resonance of the chest , is acquired hy practice , and is
calculated to enlarge the capacity of the ... Harsh and disagreeable voices are
produced by pinching up the organs , so that the sound has no chance to echo in
the ...
Depth of voice , or resonance of the chest , is acquired hy practice , and is
calculated to enlarge the capacity of the ... Harsh and disagreeable voices are
produced by pinching up the organs , so that the sound has no chance to echo in
the ...
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Página 65 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 311 - Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment ; Independence, now ; and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.
Página 305 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Página 123 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Página 117 - twas a famous victory! "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Página 118 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Página 117 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why 'twas a very wicked thing !' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
Página 187 - Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
Página 309 - If we postpone independence, do we mean to carry on, or give up, the war ? Do we mean to submit to the measures of parliament — Boston port-bill and all ? Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust ? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Página 305 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Selections for Reading and Speaking, for the Higher Classes in Common Schools Volumen4 de Leavitt's reading series |
| Autor | Joshua Leavitt |
| Editor | J.P. Jewett & Company, 1850 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 25 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 312 páginas |
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